A new typology, or a modernized concept of the old?
The concept of digital āvisitorsā and āresidentsā is believed to be an update of the concept of ādigital natives and immigrantsā introduced by Prensky (2001). A āreplacementā as described by David S. White and Alison Le Cornu (2011), would very much suggest that Prenskyās work was absolutely redundant. Although the much-criticized work by Prensky was even questioned by Prensky himself in 2009, there is some validity in his work, to be more precised, at his point of time.
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